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I'm not sure where you're getting this info, but it is wicked wrong. Ever seen a carrier's radar hit a drone? And that's nothing compared to NEMP waveforms.
by analognoise 9y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting this info, but it is wicked wrong.
Ever seen a carrier's radar hit a drone? And that's nothing compared to NEMP waveforms.
- CamperBob2 9y agoThat's not a traditional "EMP" attack, it's a brute-force assault with massive, expensive, and power-hungry microwave transmitting equipment that is never going to be feasible to deploy against drones. It will be effective for maybe 50-100 yards. I can afford more drones than you can afford Aegis platforms.
- ralfd 9y agoFun Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XbLz0L6UdI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XbLz0L6UdI (Change it to english subtitles)
- semi-extrinsic 9y agoA carrier's radar has a vastly different power budget than basically anything else which is mobile, though. I mean, the AN/SPY-1 puts out a full megawatt of RF power. Even the gas turbine on an M1 Abrams tank, if it was coupled directly to a generator and powering nothing else, can't provide enough electricity to run that. Hell, even if you put two of them together, they'd struggle.
- madengr 9y agoThat’s 1 MW pulsed power at a low duty cycle. The average power is probably a few kW.
- Nexxxeh 9y agoMaking one-off pulses, could you use EPFCG's? With some sort of directional dish or something? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_comp...
- arca_vorago 9y agoFun story, according to some whistle-blowers, after we started testing nukes and UFOs started showing up around test sites and and bases, it was our radars that fucked up their nav systems and caused the Roswell and other few crashes that happened in the late 40s until they adjusted somehow and the crashes stopped.